Week 1 Homework: Learning Styles
What are your learning styles? What have you learnt about yourself from the Hermann Brain activities this week?
My Answer: I learn best when I work in a group. I also learn quite well when the lesson or whatever we are doing involves some activity, like in science when we do a prac. Thats one of the reasons I was looking forward to Galileo so much. After doing the Hermaan Brain Activivties I found out that my characterisics don't neccesarily work with what I enjoy doing for fun.
Did you disagree with any of the findings/observations? Explain
Yes certainly, I found that the quadrant I fitted in, didn't really suit me, although I do admit sometimes I do like debating, and analysing data, but I find that I have a lot more of the characteristics involved with quadrant were a lot more relevant to the type of person that i actually am.
Were you surprised by anything you discovered about yourself this week? Consider for example, what you learnt about your learning style, working in teams or observing others in the group …
I wasn't really surprised with how anything that I observed from the other people in my group, but i was quite surprised at the attitude of some of the shop keepers on Brunswick street, they seemed to get quite annoyed that we were walking into their shop just to collect, business cards, you'd think they'd be happy for us to be interested in their business
Do you think you rely too heavily on one style of learning? What new skills would you like to develop? Yes, I tend to be always waiting for a teacher to take us outside and give us a lesson, or do a prac as a whole class, however, that never happens so I need to develop text book reading.
What questions has this raised about:
A. You as a person?
B. You as a learner?
So far Galileo as made me wonder how I'm going to learn if we aren't doing a prac or outside doing some activity?
1.How did you feel when you learned you couldn’t use the potato’s number in your description?
When Michael told us that we couldn't use the potatoes' number, I thought that we were gonna get cheated out of points, however,wee found that describing our groups potato was actually not that hard. 2. Did you find it easier or harder to write in a group and why? Umm... in a way it was easier, because i just kept on getting suggestions from everyone else in the group, bu tat times it's very easy to get distracted by the other team members.
3.Describe the different methods used in your group to describe the potato, and explain which were the most effective and why.
We tried to look at the shape, the different colors, different markings, indentations, then we looked at the different spots and tried to look for patterns. I think, the different indentations and different colors helped us describe the potato best and may have gained us the most ponits.
4.What ‘roles’ did you observe being undertaken in your group?
The different roles that were established, or delegated, went as follows, Declan was the person who spoke the description to m,e I wrote the description, and Zac was the person who put together all the clues to guess which potato was which.
5.Describe the multiple intelligences used by yourself and others in your group during this activity
We were forced, to use our investigative skills, which I have no dout will be honed during the term, when we are on the various trails around the city
6.How well did your group make use of these different intelligences to achieve its goal? – give examples
We had to use our investigative skills to figure out which groups potato was which. It was really challenging but really fun and provided me with a good feeling
7.Describe how your group worked together as a team. What qualities would a group to make a ‘good
team’ for this activity?
A good group possess a good head on its shoulders. Generally when the people in the group are friends it helps because they tend to know each others strengths and weaknesses. They co-operate well and listen to each other and support each other
8.What difficulties arose during the each part of the activity (describing and ‘choosing the correct
potato’)? Why did these problems arise?
Sometimes when choosing the correct potato we often found we had some conflicting ideas about which potato was which. But we went by majority rules on most cases
9.In retrospect, what else could your group have done to improve its performance in describing and
selecting a potato?
We probably could have made our own little marks on the potato which would have certainly made describing the potato much easier and would have made the other groups selection a lot smoother and less hesitant.
10.In what other way(s) could you have behaved within the group to assist with the task? Explain, as
clearly as you can, why you chose not to behave in this way during the activity? At times during the activity we would slack off, and lose concentration, or we'd completely go off topic, I don't think that was our choosing but if we had our time again we'd probably not slack off and we'd definitely stick to the task.
Indigenous Questions
Why did the Yorta Yorta people lose their Land Rights case?
The Yorta Yorta people lost their land rights case because chief Justice Murray Gleeson proclaimed that the Yorta people had failed to meet the set of requirements which were laid down in the 1993 Native title act.The high court found that the Yorta Yorta people had lost their connection to the land and therefor they did not deserve the land to keep.
Have Aboriginal people been treated fairly, in terms of right to land?
No, certainly not. The Aboriginals, always believed that the land didn't belong to them, but the they belonged to the land. So they were fine with the white fellas living on their land, but they weren't as comfortable with the whole situation when the white fellas beganchanging, the land and making laws, and then they would kill and kick the Aboriginals of their land.
Week 5 Homework
Monday - Forgot to have breakfast today. For lunch I had a Chicken schnitzel sandwhich, and for dinner we had lasagne. YUMM
Tuesday - No breakast again, for lunch, ham sandwich and dinner was left overs from yesterday
Wednesday - Toast and vegimite to start, then another ham sandwich, and then fish fingers
Thursday - Toast again jam, then a cheese sandwich and then my mums friend rocked up for a roast
For Monday I wasn't overly unethical but I guess i was a bit on the morally bad side. I do care about the chickens and lambs cos I've heard how they get treated in the slaughter houses but theres really not much i can do about it.
Tuesday wasn't that bad, I thought, but i guess the lasagne sort of carries over from monday night and ofcourse the pigs supply the ham but not willingly so that will be on my concience
Wednesday wasn't actually that bad it was pretty good. I felt the only morally unethical part was the ham sandwich, the fish fingers are bad yea but they dont really suffer all that much, they really die about 2 minutes after they're caught. So yeah i was happy with Wednesday.
Thursday was probably the worst day of the week in terms of food morality. A ham sandwich, a big leg of a lamb is really bad when you think about it. But you don't really feel it when your eating with the family, but then when ur told or you read, or you hear about what the various animals go through to provide us with dinner, u really take a look at what your eating and you wonder, whether you'd like to have to live like that and know your never going to get out untill you die
One way to make our meals a little more ethical, is to make a lot more 2 minute noodles, im sure there is no morals to broken there.
Community Service Assignment What have you learnt about co-operation through your Community Service?
I think I certainly wouldn't have learnt as much about anything, if I'd gone to one of the other schools. But at Ascot Vale Special School, I think the lessons that I learnt will be invaluable when I grow up and start looking for job, and even more when I have my own children.
In terms of co-operation, I would say that I learnt, that in order to get along with, and help children, their has to be a certain amount of co-operation between the party's. Their definitely has to be allowances made for the childish behaviour of small children. But then the children also have to respect the boundaries of safety and propriety.
What I witnessed at Community service, was a perfect balance of this. Anne Marie, the teacher in the class I was in, was able to show that she genuinely cared for the children, even thogh she was yelling at them. And those kids genuinely seemed to be attached to her. Wonderful to watch.
Explain some of the problems you encountered during community service. How did you overcome these?
At the beginning, I found it a bit hard to find my feet in the classroom, but after a couple of days I was able to fit in quit well. I'm not sure how this happened but it sort of started when I made friends with one of the kids named Monty, he's really cool and energetic, and he's really easy to get along with. He also really wanted someone to talk to, and someone to listen to his stories, and I had no problem with it. He was quite imaginative.
It helps when you can relate to the kids and their stories. It sort of encourages them to approach you and speak to you. Some of the kids, in fact many of the kids just want someone to laugh with and have fun with and I really liked being that person. It was so cool and my only regret about Galileo is that I only get to do Community Service for one term.
But other than that I didn't really have too many problems with getting along with the class. The two teachers, Anne Marie and Sarah, really helped me with that by telling me how to get along with the kids.
What benefits did you receive from working with these students?
During community service, I got the opportunity to be with the kids, help them, talk to them and have fun with them, and I'd be pretty disappointed if I hadn't learnt something or if I hadn't benefited from it all, however, fortunately for me, I have nothing to be disappointed about.
I received a bit of an education and an insight in how to deal with kids. It takes a lot of patience, kindness and balance. Balance in the sense that one has to be able to be nice and strict at the same time. Even when having a go at a child, you have to be able to do that but in a nice sort of tone, that way, they wont hate you for ever.
I also found out that with children, they will always be able to pick up all the skills they are taught. It may take them a little longer than adults or teenagers, but with the right guidance and a good amount of practise, they'll be able to perform that skill, whatever it may be, to their fullest. It's wonderful to watch. Looking back, what were your greatest achievements in Community Service?
Looking back, I'd have to start with getting to know Monty. I was so excited to make my first friend at Community Service. After I made friends with him it was so easy to make friends with some of the other kids, which made it even easier to be in the class and around the kids.
The next achievement that I would like to make note of, happened over the whole term. On the first week that I was there, a couple of the kids were struggling to ride the bikes in bike ed. Then last week one of them, Sarah, started pedalling while the other one Cameron, came extremely close. He was successfully balancing on the bike, except the only thing he couldn't do was find the strength in his legs to push down on the pedals more than once. But he'll get there.
My next best achievement was again last week, well, it wasn't really an achievement, but it was certainly a good feeling. As I was leaving I said goodbye to everyone, and gave a few of the kids, a high five. Then as I was about to open the door one of the kids named Lewis came up and shook my hand. And that really pleased me and at that moment, I felt really good about doing Community Service.
What are your learning styles? What have you learnt about yourself from the Hermann Brain activities this week?
My Answer: I learn best when I work in a group. I also learn quite well when the lesson or whatever we are doing involves some activity, like in science when we do a prac. Thats one of the reasons I was looking forward to Galileo so much. After doing the Hermaan Brain Activivties I found out that my characterisics don't neccesarily work with what I enjoy doing for fun.
Did you disagree with any of the findings/observations? Explain
Yes certainly, I found that the quadrant I fitted in, didn't really suit me, although I do admit sometimes I do like debating, and analysing data, but I find that I have a lot more of the characteristics involved with quadrant were a lot more relevant to the type of person that i actually am.
Were you surprised by anything you discovered about yourself this week? Consider for example, what you learnt about your learning style, working in teams or observing others in the group …
I wasn't really surprised with how anything that I observed from the other people in my group, but i was quite surprised at the attitude of some of the shop keepers on Brunswick street, they seemed to get quite annoyed that we were walking into their shop just to collect, business cards, you'd think they'd be happy for us to be interested in their business
Do you think you rely too heavily on one style of learning? What new skills would you like to develop?
Yes, I tend to be always waiting for a teacher to take us outside and give us a lesson, or do a prac as a whole class, however, that never happens so I need to develop text book reading.
What questions has this raised about:
A. You as a person?
B. You as a learner?
So far Galileo as made me wonder how I'm going to learn if we aren't doing a prac or outside doing some activity?
Week 2 Homework: Video Log
zac and channas video
Week 3 Homework: Potato Questions
1. How did you feel when you learned you couldn’t use the potato’s number in your description?
When Michael told us that we couldn't use the potatoes' number, I thought that we were gonna get cheated out of points, however,wee found that describing our groups potato was actually not that hard.2. Did you find it easier or harder to write in a group and why?
Umm... in a way it was easier, because i just kept on getting suggestions from everyone else in the group, bu tat times it's very easy to get distracted by the other team members.
3. Describe the different methods used in your group to describe the potato, and explain which were the most effective and why.We tried to look at the shape, the different colors, different markings, indentations, then we looked at the different spots and tried to look for patterns. I think, the different indentations and different colors helped us describe the potato best and may have gained us the most ponits.
4. What ‘roles’ did you observe being undertaken in your group?
The different roles that were established, or delegated, went as follows, Declan was the person who spoke the description to m,e I wrote the description, and Zac was the person who put together all the clues to guess which potato was which.
5. Describe the multiple intelligences used by yourself and others in your group during this activity
We were forced, to use our investigative skills, which I have no dout will be honed during the term, when we are on the various trails around the city
6. How well did your group make use of these different intelligences to achieve its goal? – give examples
We had to use our investigative skills to figure out which groups potato was which. It was really challenging but really fun and provided me with a good feeling
7. Describe how your group worked together as a team. What qualities would a group to make a ‘good
team’ for this activity?
A good group possess a good head on its shoulders. Generally when the people in the group are friends it helps because they tend to know each others strengths and weaknesses. They co-operate well and listen to each other and support each other
8. What difficulties arose during the each part of the activity (describing and ‘choosing the correct
potato’)? Why did these problems arise?
Sometimes when choosing the correct potato we often found we had some conflicting ideas about which potato was which. But we went by majority rules on most cases
9. In retrospect, what else could your group have done to improve its performance in describing and
selecting a potato?
We probably could have made our own little marks on the potato which would have certainly made describing the potato much easier and would have made the other groups selection a lot smoother and less hesitant.
10. In what other way(s) could you have behaved within the group to assist with the task? Explain, as
clearly as you can, why you chose not to behave in this way during the activity?
At times during the activity we would slack off, and lose concentration, or we'd completely go off topic, I don't think that was our choosing but if we had our time again we'd probably not slack off and we'd definitely stick to the task.
Indigenous Questions
Why did the Yorta Yorta people lose their Land Rights case?
The Yorta Yorta people lost their land rights case because chief Justice Murray Gleeson proclaimed that the Yorta people had failed to meet the set of requirements which were laid down in the 1993 Native title act.The high court found that the Yorta Yorta people had lost their connection to the land and therefor they did not deserve the land to keep.
Have Aboriginal people been treated fairly, in terms of right to land?
No, certainly not. The Aboriginals, always believed that the land didn't belong to them, but the they belonged to the land. So they were fine with the white fellas living on their land, but they weren't as comfortable with the whole situation when the white fellas beganchanging, the land and making laws, and then they would kill and kick the Aboriginals of their land.
Week 5 Homework
Monday - Forgot to have breakfast today. For lunch I had a Chicken schnitzel sandwhich, and for dinner we had lasagne. YUMM
Tuesday - No breakast again, for lunch, ham sandwich and dinner was left overs from yesterday
Wednesday - Toast and vegimite to start, then another ham sandwich, and then fish fingers
Thursday - Toast again jam, then a cheese sandwich and then my mums friend rocked up for a roast
For Monday I wasn't overly unethical but I guess i was a bit on the morally bad side. I do care about the chickens and lambs cos I've heard how they get treated in the slaughter houses but theres really not much i can do about it.
Tuesday wasn't that bad, I thought, but i guess the lasagne sort of carries over from monday night and ofcourse the pigs supply the ham but not willingly so that will be on my concience
Wednesday wasn't actually that bad it was pretty good. I felt the only morally unethical part was the ham sandwich, the fish fingers are bad yea but they dont really suffer all that much, they really die about 2 minutes after they're caught. So yeah i was happy with Wednesday.
Thursday was probably the worst day of the week in terms of food morality. A ham sandwich, a big leg of a lamb is really bad when you think about it. But you don't really feel it when your eating with the family, but then when ur told or you read, or you hear about what the various animals go through to provide us with dinner, u really take a look at what your eating and you wonder, whether you'd like to have to live like that and know your never going to get out untill you die
One way to make our meals a little more ethical, is to make a lot more 2 minute noodles, im sure there is no morals to broken there.
Community Service Assignment
What have you learnt about co-operation through your Community Service?
I think I certainly wouldn't have learnt as much about anything, if I'd gone to one of the other schools. But at Ascot Vale Special School, I think the lessons that I learnt will be invaluable when I grow up and start looking for job, and even more when I have my own children.
In terms of co-operation, I would say that I learnt, that in order to get along with, and help children, their has to be a certain amount of co-operation between the party's. Their definitely has to be allowances made for the childish behaviour of small children. But then the children also have to respect the boundaries of safety and propriety.
What I witnessed at Community service, was a perfect balance of this. Anne Marie, the teacher in the class I was in, was able to show that she genuinely cared for the children, even thogh she was yelling at them. And those kids genuinely seemed to be attached to her. Wonderful to watch.
Explain some of the problems you encountered during community service. How did you overcome these?
At the beginning, I found it a bit hard to find my feet in the classroom, but after a couple of days I was able to fit in quit well. I'm not sure how this happened but it sort of started when I made friends with one of the kids named Monty, he's really cool and energetic, and he's really easy to get along with. He also really wanted someone to talk to, and someone to listen to his stories, and I had no problem with it. He was quite imaginative.
It helps when you can relate to the kids and their stories. It sort of encourages them to approach you and speak to you. Some of the kids, in fact many of the kids just want someone to laugh with and have fun with and I really liked being that person. It was so cool and my only regret about Galileo is that I only get to do Community Service for one term.
But other than that I didn't really have too many problems with getting along with the class. The two teachers, Anne Marie and Sarah, really helped me with that by telling me how to get along with the kids.
What benefits did you receive from working with these students?
During community service, I got the opportunity to be with the kids, help them, talk to them and have fun with them, and I'd be pretty disappointed if I hadn't learnt something or if I hadn't benefited from it all, however, fortunately for me, I have nothing to be disappointed about.
I received a bit of an education and an insight in how to deal with kids. It takes a lot of patience, kindness and balance. Balance in the sense that one has to be able to be nice and strict at the same time. Even when having a go at a child, you have to be able to do that but in a nice sort of tone, that way, they wont hate you for ever.
I also found out that with children, they will always be able to pick up all the skills they are taught. It may take them a little longer than adults or teenagers, but with the right guidance and a good amount of practise, they'll be able to perform that skill, whatever it may be, to their fullest. It's wonderful to watch.
Looking back, what were your greatest achievements in Community Service?
Looking back, I'd have to start with getting to know Monty. I was so excited to make my first friend at Community Service. After I made friends with him it was so easy to make friends with some of the other kids, which made it even easier to be in the class and around the kids.
The next achievement that I would like to make note of, happened over the whole term. On the first week that I was there, a couple of the kids were struggling to ride the bikes in bike ed. Then last week one of them, Sarah, started pedalling while the other one Cameron, came extremely close. He was successfully balancing on the bike, except the only thing he couldn't do was find the strength in his legs to push down on the pedals more than once. But he'll get there.
My next best achievement was again last week, well, it wasn't really an achievement, but it was certainly a good feeling. As I was leaving I said goodbye to everyone, and gave a few of the kids, a high five. Then as I was about to open the door one of the kids named Lewis came up and shook my hand. And that really pleased me and at that moment, I felt really good about doing Community Service.
By Channa De Silva 9B1